SME Servers: RAM
This one will be short and sweet with three options available for RAM: ECC (or parity), buffered (or registered), unbuffered. First step is to match the RAM to your motherboard, so use SDRAM, DDR, DDR2 or FB-DIMM. You don’t get…
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Thermalright HR-05-SLI Chipset Heatsink
I bought an eVGA Nforce4 SLI motherboard a few years ago: nice board, socket 939 and was my main system until I upgraded to Core 2 Duo. Sold my old Athlon 64 x2 4400+ but had the motherboard lying around,…
SME Servers: Motherboard
Back in the day it was clear what a server motherboard was: it has two CPU sockets, onboard SCSI, onboard NIC, 64 bit PCI (later PCI-X) slots, extended ATX form factor and lots of fan headers. You needed a server motherboard…
SME Servers: CPU
Lets take a look at CPU choices in the SME server environment. My big reason for getting into server systems was to have two processors in the same system. Today a server can be efficiently handled with one CPU socket…
SME Servers
The term “server” has greatly evolved over the course of computing. When I started this site in 1999 servers were dual processor systems with SCSI hardware, RAID and a very solid build. Since I’m a do it yourself kind of…
2007/04/30: Backup
It’s been a few weeks since my last eWeakly, simply for the fact that I haven’t done anything computer related of interest. Last week Microsoft released the Windows Home Server Community Technology Preview (CTP). This put a lot more fit…
2007/04/09: Tyan
The great server upgrade took place this weekend, or to be more accurate is still taking place. I had a lot of spare parts at home and had already built the server. As I started to remove files from the…
2007/04/02: CRT
It seems my friends that the CRT monitor is in fact dead. For my day job we have many locations and buy only CRT monitors. Everything has gone swimmingly until last week when our vendor said they couldn’t get CRT…
2007/03/26: WHS Redux
My APC UPS problems continue ( see last week for more details ) with random reboots. I don’t believe the battery is working at all right now. I have a brand new APC Smart UPS 1500 Rackmount in the garage,…